Humans
Efforts to stop prisoners reoffending can be useless or even backfire
News
This week's magazine
14 March 2020
Issue 3273
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Why the coronavirus is different from flu and warrants major action
News
Health
Is running or walking better for you? Here鈥檚 what the science says
Features
Environment
Optimism can avert climate disaster, say duo who brokered Paris deal
Features
Environment
To make smartphones sustainable, we need to rethink thermodynamics
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Why is it so hard to calculate how many people will die from covid-19?
It might seem confusing that estimates of number of fatalities caused by the new coronavirus range widely, but that's because there is no one fixed death rate
News
Health
Italy on full lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus
News
Health
Coronavirus testing in the US has been hampered by multiple problems
News
Health
We don’t know why so few covid-19 cases have been reported in Africa
News
Health
Coronavirus: Risk of death rises with age, diabetes and heart disease
News
Health
The race to test coronavirus antiviral drugs and vaccines is under way
News
Technology
Coronavirus: Hospital ward staffed entirely by robots opens in China
News
Health
Slimming down fatty livers in the lab could boost donor organ supply
News
Chemistry
Liquid metal that floats on water could make transformable robots
News
Life
Tiny birdlike dinosaur species identified from skull trapped in amber
News
Environment
Net zero emissions target in peril as tropical forests absorb less CO2
News
Space
Neutrinos determined where galaxies formed in the early universe
News
Environment
Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on the sun
News
Environment
Leaked report says UK net zero climate goal may increase air pollution
News
Space
Oxygen in lunar rocks suggests the moon formed in huge collision
News
Environment
Climate change made Australian bushfires more likely, says report
News
Technology
Gold-coated fabric that emits own light could be ultimate safety gear
News
Health
Bacteria found leaking from gut to body in people who are obese
News
Space
Lettuce grown on space station is just as good as on Earth
News
Humans
Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools
News
Analysis
Health
Coronavirus: Are there two strains and is one more deadly?
Researchers in China say there are two strains of the new coronavirus, one of which is more aggressive 鈥� but the World Health Organization says the virus is stable
News
Humans
Efforts to stop prisoners reoffending can be useless or even backfire
News
Humans
Covid-19: The science of uncertainty can help us make better choices
News
Humans
Twitter was once a fun place 鈥� now it is heading towards destruction
News
Features
Health
Is running or walking better for you? Here鈥檚 what the science says
Does pounding the pavement damage your joints? Can you get away with just walking? Sports engineer Steve Haake pits running against walking and dispels some abiding myths
Features
Environment
To make smartphones sustainable, we need to rethink thermodynamics
Features
Environment
Optimism can avert climate disaster, say duo who brokered Paris deal
Features
Culture
Health
Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics
Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine
Culture
Humans
TikTok: How did the video-sharing app get so big so quickly?
Culture
Life
Little Joe review: We should worry about these mind-bending plants
Culture
More
Tom Gauld鈥檚 offices are inspired by Plato
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Technology
快猫短视频 got an early glimpse of voice recognition technology
Regulars
Humans
Use the science of garlic to bring sweetness or fire to your food
Regulars
Twisteddoodles lists the equipment every science lab should have
Regulars
Physics
How quantum computing got a boost from an experiment in a cornfield
Regulars
Regulars
The musical duo who have written 68 billion melodies
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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Letters
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